In 2004, Laura Bush told W. not to throw gays under the bus. What did he do? Listened to Rove.

Bush cheated his way out of serving in Vietnam and into declaring war on Iraq. Are we surprised to learn that he used the gays to win in 2004, deflecting attention from his expensive and ruinous war?

A passage from Laura Bush's memoir, Spoken from the Heart, out next week:

"In 2004 the social question that animated the campaign was gay marriage. Before the election season had unfolded, I had talked to George about not making gay marriage a significant issue. We have, I reminded him, a number of close friends who are gay or whose children are gay. But at that moment I could never have imagined what path this issue would take and where it would lead.”